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Miguel C. Leon, Tamara Heartsill-Scalley, Iván Santiago and William H. McDowell
Streams and rivers of the Luquillo Experimental Forest, Puerto Rico, have been the subject of extensive watershed and aquatic research since the 1980s. This research includes understanding stream export of nutrients and coarse particulate organic matter,...
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Xianbin Liu, Xiucheng Zeng, Xiaoming Zou, D. Jean Lodge, Sarah Stankavich, Grizelle González and Sharon A. Cantrell
Hurricanes are an important disturbance in the tropics that can alter forest ecosystem properties and processes. To understand the immediate influence of hurricane disturbance on carbon cycling, we examined soil labile organic carbon (LOC) in a Canopy Tr...
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Xianbin Liu, Xiucheng Zeng, Xiaoming Zou, Grizelle González, Chao Wang and Si Yang
Hurricanes Irma and Maria struck Puerto Rico on the 6th and 20th of September 2017, respectively. These two powerful Cat 5 hurricanes severely defoliated forest canopy and deposited massive amounts of litterfall in the forests across the island. We estab...
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Tamara Heartsill Scalley
The science of ecology fundamentally aims to understand species and their relation to the environment. At sites where hurricane disturbance is part of the environmental context, permanent forest plots are critical to understand ecological vegetation dyna...
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Dingfang Chen, Mei Yu, Grizelle González, Xiaoming Zou and Qiong Gao
Tropical forests play an important role in regulating the global climate and the carbon cycle. With the changing temperature and moisture along the elevation gradient, the Luquillo Experimental Forest in Northeastern Puerto Rico provides a natural approa...
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Kathleen A. McGinley
Tropical forest management increasingly is challenged by multiple, complex, intersecting, and in many cases unprecedented changes in the environment that are triggered by human activity. Many of these changes are associated with the Anthropocene?a new ge...
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